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La Fontaine, the French fabulist

10. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French novelist and philosopher (1712-1778). La Fontaine and Rousseau brought into French literature the sensé for *'out-doors," the former dealing more particularly with animal lif e, and the latter with the beautif ul aspects of nature.

11. Poussin, French painter (1594-1665). He arranged his scènes from nature more or less according to the formula of "la belle nature."

12. Gustave GefiFroy, French art critic and novelist (bom 1855), also the author of a biography of Clemenceau.

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